(NOTE: A full permissions version of this product is available)
Viewing In-World is highly recommended - see the link below.
Version 3: Additional Snow material/texture set included.
A rustic wood and rope bridge, perfect for spanning chasms, rivers, canyons and gorges. The intrepid traveler is advised to be cautious: Always plan your journey - Jammin takes no responsibility for what you encounter on the other side.
This kit contains 3 unique components, which can be assembled into a bridge of whatever span you require. Also included is an assembled bridge with a span of 15 meters - use this, adjust it to suit, or make your own from scratch.
Mesh Components
End Piece: 2 posts and rope stays (3 LI) - 1 required at each end of the bridge.
Main Rope: 4 of these (1 LI each) required - 2 top and 2 bottom.
Planks: Several planks as one mesh object for the bridge surface (1 LI each) - as many of these as needed to span the required distance.
The total LI cost for the assembled 15m span is 14 prims - your total cost will obviously vary depending on the length required.
Tip for creating your own: It is advisable to place the main ropes first and scale them to your required span, then build the rest of the bridge around them. If you experience texture stretching, simply adjust the 'Vertical Scale' under the texture menu to add more/less tiling. Remember to adjust the normal and specular maps to match.
Textures
All components share a single map set, of which there are 3 versions: Clean(ish), Grungy/Mossy, and Snow, with corresponding normal and specular maps.
Note #1: The differences between the clean and grungy normal/specular maps are very subtle.
Note #2: Unless you are using the snow material set, you won't receive much benefit from using the specular maps unless the diffuse color is quite low. For this reason, it is recommended you remove it to save texture memory if it is not needed.
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See item in Second Life- 3 separate mesh components for flexibility
- Use the assembled 15 metre bridge, or make your own from scratch
- Unique textures - clean and grungy versions
- Diffuse, Normal & Specular Maps at 1024 & 512 resolution
- Full permissions shadow and UV maps to create your own textures
Shockingly low LI
I landscape a lot. I've bought so many dang rope bridges and bridge kits. When I get them, they're TINY at the listed LI and that number goes up REAL fast when you start scaling. This is by far the best of the lot and at a super low price for something that comes with multiple textures including normals and specs! Thank you!
Magnificent Bridge
There is so much this artist does right with his work.
This modular bridge includes a prebuilt 15m span that I was using. The physics are what you would expect, no falling through strange portions, the ropes act like proper guide rails.
Through hoodoo each unit of this build uses the same exact UV mapping and texture. By default it was using the 1024 swatch. Though Jammin was a keen awesome person who includes a heap of different textures including a 512 version. I swapped down to the lower resolution because I wanted to minimize the VRAM hit. It continues to look rather attractive on 512 textures. As someone who has purchased meshwork only to find it contained 4-5 individual 1024 textures this is a very welcome change. (most viewer maximum VRAM settings only allow for about 100 1024 textures in play before it hits a point of "I am out of VRAM and I am now going to have to force things blurry to make all this texture fit" considering how much memory avatar textures can eat up it pays to be frugal as heck).
The models themselves are attractive well laid out. You can resize this bridge to fit a variety of gaps. At a price tag of just shy of 400 lindens which isn't even 2 USD there's very little reason for not purchasing this wonderful piece of work. It's very professional well worth the purchase.
Very customizable.
I was after a bridge that would work for varying widths on a sim I'm developing, and this was perfect for the job. Low prim, looks great. Look forward to seeing more stuff!